Jamie_Beatson

Plastic Whistle fans were saying the video showed there was no contact for the pen - looked pretty blatant to me there!

Don't think it is arrogant at all - just a reaction to getting a team we have played several times recently. Why can't we draw Dumbarton or East Stirlingshire or Montrose or Elgin or one of the junior teams away from home - in other words the places where I've never seen Saints play!

Zerouali! I didn't know he died! That was in 2004 as well now that I look it up - actually, 3 years ago to the day now.

Bumping this again - entry any date after December 14th (and the earlier the better). Get in touch by email/PM or call 07841 481 414

Anyone looking for a flat or know of anyone looking? Large one-bedroom flat in Craigie area (near leisure pool) to rent. Entry available early/mid December onwards. Can view any time. Get in touch by PM or email with the links below. Cheers, Jamie

I for one have never been a fan of McInnes as a player for us (although I thought he was excellent on Sunday). However, how he was as a player says nothing about his management skills. He talks a good game though, and I will certainly get behind him as a manager. Hopefully most fans will give him at least until the end of the season to stamp his authority and style on the team.

Anyone got any? In particular, anyone manage to grab the goals/action off of the live footage on the website?

The SFL have decided to close the Derry end stand for this game - the stand to the left of where we normally sit that had been allocated to the Dunfermline support. Ticket sales down Dunfy way must be very slow!

I'm assuming McCluskey isn't fit. Either that or he has had a mega fall out with someone behind closed doors. Stewart is on the bench, and he is never going to change a game, whereas McCluskey has unbelievable skill and touch that we are missing.

The two big problems for me are the reliance on his "favourites", and the substitutions that are made. McInnes, Sheerin and McLaren have been miles away from the last few games, and yet all three have started. McLaren would probably play much better if he was on the left, but if we are to persist with Sheerin drifting inside and being slower than ever on the left surely we can stick Weatherston on the right, who has shown that he can play some good football out there. McInnes is someone I have never had much time for in our midfield, and to be frank his last two displays have been absolutely atrocious. He doesn't break up play and seems to just let the game drift past him. His first touch at Dens was appalling, and yesterday when he did get the ball under control he constantly took one or two touches too many, therefore killing any attacking movement we had on the go. The sooner Hardie is back to fitness the better. And as soon as Mooner is back get him in for McInnes. And on the substitutions - too often it is too little too late. And it is always the same people taken off. MacDonald for Jackson. Weatherston for McLaren. It doesn't seem to matter who is playing well/badly.

Where about are people getting tickets in advance? My parents want to get a couple.

The whole thing is a complete farce. The fact that there were still tickets left late in the day and people were getting through on various random numbers that weren't advertised is atrocious. When I applied for my tickets I asked for my name to be put into the ballot for leftovers - I assumed this is how it would be done because it is infinitely simpler and more democratic. Everyone who wants an additional ticket registers their interest early, everyone's name goes into the hat (or computer system as it would obviously be) and 8 or 9000 names are picked out. Simple, fair and surely much easier to administrate than the phone system.

Sheerin is spending too much of his time drifting inside to support McInnes who spent most of his time yesterday punting the ball out of the park. I know people say he does a lot of good work off the ball, but at the end of the day I'm sure we could find someone to do that job who doesn't have feet like an elephant when he gets the ball. Think McLaren should be out left and Weatherston out right - hopefully they would give us some penetration down the flanks. Rocco in the middle with someone defensively minded to break up play would be a great combination I think. McLaren is getting an awful lot of stick, but I think he has played well recently. The fact he has to cut inside to cross it every time or use his unfavoured right foot every time does not help his end product.

First of all - thought it was a very good game of football - attacking and entertaining, although obviously a bastard of a result for us. It was a game of two halves if ever I've seen one. We flew out of the traps and could have been well in front before we scored. Rocco threaded a superb ball into McLaren and he snatched his shot instead of doing what looked oh so simple and taking a touch round Samson and knocking it into the empty net. Then minutes later Rocco had a great chance when again slipped through but this time Samson made an excellent save. From the resulting corner we had a header cleared off the line. Then the controversy started. A Dundee defender misjudged a high ball and allowed it to bounce over his head. Anderson turned the ball back to Deuchar whose shot was heading for the corner of the net. A Dundee player (I think it was Palenik) dived and made a tremendous save - one that Craig Samson would not have made had it gone past Palenik. Iain Brines had a clear view and pointed to the spot. Incredibly - and that isn't even a strong enough word for it - he only showed the Dundee player a yellow card. An absoutely disgraceful decision. Palenik cheated by blocking a shot deliberately with his hand that was heading for the goal. He stopped a clear goalscoring opportuniy - actually never mind a clear opportunity - he denied us a goal. There is no punishment other than a red card. The ref got it wrong - plain and simple. Sheerin tucked it away, and we continued to play well. We restricted Dundee and kept going forward. Dundee only had one chance of note - Daquin heading goalwards with Main making a good save low to his left. We went in 1-0 at half time with Dundee still having their full complement of 11 players on the park. We really should have taken an early chance and scored two and they really should have been down to ten men. We lived to regret this later on. The second half was completely the opposite of the first, with Dundee this time setting the pace and causing us no end of problems. This was not helped by us coming out looking nervous and defending badly. Dundee had several great chances and played some great football, and equalised when we defended a set piece poorly. The ball was swung over from the Dundee right and initially knocked away. It came back in and was played to the left side of the box where Dundee's player had time and space to pick his spot. Dundee continued to push and we were really struggling, but eventually with approximaetly 20 minutes to go we started to play again. We had been losing the midfield battle badly, but started to pick up and had a couple of great chances to snatch victory. They both fell to Steven Anderson - the first a header that was well smothered by Samson, the second a glorious chance inside the six yard box after a great ball in from the Saints left that he couldn't quite keep down. Then disaster for Saints. Dundee attacked down the right, and Stanic blocked the first cross. It fell back to the Dundee player who attempted to play the ball across again. And again Stanic threw himself in to block it. Unfortunately, it broke to a Dundee man lurking at the edge of the box. It wasn't closed down quickly enough and he picked his spot in the corner. At the end of the day, I really do think a draw would have been a fair result. Those who say we didn't deserve anything clearly don't remember the first half. We controlled it, and lost the plot in the second half. A note on the ref - Iain Brines. He apparently had a shocker midweek while officiating Motherwell v Rangers, and in my opinion, the SFA should now take his whistle away and never let him near one again. He was awful today - and for both teams. So many times he just blew at random for nothing challenges, then he'd miss a blatant foul. He was not helped by his assistants. This is before you get to the penalty decision. He made up his own rules there, because they certainly weren't anything to do with football. Overall, Dundee looked poor early on and couldn't handle the pace of Quinn, and McLaren to begin with. We really should have capitalised and taken a comfortable lead in to half time. Alex Rae was clearly raging well before half time - he hooked Daquin before the break after a series of piss poor crosses - and clearly gave his boys a good rollocking at half time. They came out much more determined and hungry for the game, and deservedly equalised. We didn't come out for the second half until there were 15-20 minutes to play, and I thought the game had become pretty even by the time Dundee got their winner. Very very disappointing finish.

Some people obviously don't have a clue. A few weeks ago in one of the Challenge Cup games Cuthbert did very well to save a shot that dipped and bounced in front of him. He pushed it wide for a corner. These two women behind me starting saying "Cuthbert you're rubbish get Main on that is a disgrace." Totally ludicrous

Deal with the game first - Thought we controlled the first half and were unfortunate not to score. We certainly had chances and should have put at least one away. We didn't turn up for the first part of the second half, although we did start to come in to it. Thought McInnes had gone back to his usual role of chasing shadows after a couple of half decent matches. His role is to break up play and win the ball but he very rarely did that today IMO. Disappointed McLaren was the first man subbed as well - thought he looked pretty dangerous. Both goals were total freaks. Clyde's came after Irvine committed himself to a tackle that he didn't get close to winning, and Dougie Imrie tried to swing in a deep cross to the Clyde men in the middle. It ended up bending in to Alan Main's top corner. Ours came when Deuchar picked the ball up on the left and mishit his cross for MacDonald. Clyde's keeper somehow fumbled it into the back of the net. All in all their keeper was dreadful throughout and twice totally flapped at crosses which Deuchar won. He was fortunate to have men behind him both times to clear the danger. On to the ref (what was his name btw?). Simply the worst referee I have ever seen. The game was not in any way nasty, yet eight men were booked. Most for their first tackles. Rocco Quinn was booked after the Clyde man squared up to him. Quinn shrugged his shoulders and asked the ref to do something about it, and they both saw yellow cards. The incident that really summed up how bad the ref was came fairly late on. Anderson played the ball back for Main who slipped, and with the ball heading for the net Main scrambled back and dived on the ball. He landed with it on the goal line. Anyone at the north end of the East Stand (as I was) would have had a great view - as did the linesman. Main pulled himself off of the ball slightly as if to show the linesman it hadn't gone out for a corner, and as he lifted his chest off of it Clyde's forward stabbed at it with his right foot, knocking it across the line where it then hit Main's arm. The linesman, who was perfectly placed, signalled a goal kick, which Main promptly took and passed to Stanic at left back. Clyde's boy then had a word with the ref, who blew his whistle and pointed for a corner. The linesman instantly raised his flag, which the ref ignored. However, he didn't put it down and eventually the ref came over, and after a lengthy discussion he reluctantly gave us the goal kick again. How he possibly thought he was in a position to overrule the linesman is beyond me. The linesman was looking along the line and had a perfect view of the line, the ball and who it had it. The ref was standing near enough thirty yards out in the middle of the pitch - there is no way he could have seen what had happened - much like the Quinn booking where he clearly hadn't seen what happened. In short, he was a self important prick who wanted to be the star of the show, and ruined what was potentially a good game of football with his persistent whistle blowing for every slight touch. By dishing out so many yellow cards early he set a precedent and couldn't get away from it, meaning basically any semi strong tackle was resulting in a booking. Totally inconsistent, arrogant and useless in every way.

Having just watched the video online it is pretty clear that we should have murdered them - plenty of great chances but far too many hit straight at the keeper or blazed over!

I should be able to play this weekend, count me in!

I've always wondered whether players would look at this kind of site - on the one hand you'll get a bit of an ego boost if you are doing ok, but have a bad game and people tend to over react around here!

Real Madrid has been in touch with me and has made a really good offer to the site. When he last sold the t-shirts £1 of each sale went to one of the Gannochy youth teams. This time, £1 from each site is going in to the WeArePerth kitty to pay for future hosting/bandwidth/software. I think there is a few quid left over from last year's sponsorship (plug - eat at the 101 chippy), so this will hopefully help us out massively in paying for the renewal early next year. Thanks, Jamie

Maybe the dual clocks on it will finally stop Saintkev asking the perpetual "what time does a game of football finish?" question.

I have my sources A friend of mine is doing a PhD there and saw the bus pulling in to the car park ahead of her!

Apparently the team bus is up at the uni just now. Anyone know what their up to? I suspect a bounce match or something similar v Falkirk or Stirling Albion.

The best sign that ever came up on the old school one was "Oh no away goal" - unfortunately the other team had to score for it to come up

Any word on prices etc yet? Might still be a bit early. I'm assuming each side will get one of the big stands at each end. Maybe Dunfermline will get the Derry enclosure and Saint one end of the Main Stand? Who knows if we will even sell that many tickets!